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Michael Edward McGerr

Professor of History, History Department
College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Faculty Development, Acting Chair—Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Professor of History

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Faculty Development, Acting Chair—Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
IU Bloomington

Interests:

Political campaigns and debates, communicating and communications, gender and communication issues, American, political, United States social and Western United States history, Vietnam war, Western frontier

Education:

• B.A. at Yale University, 1976
• M.A. at Yale University, 1978
• Ph.D. at Yale University, 1984

Background:

Michael McGerr is a nationally known expert on American political history whose specialties are the United States since 1877, and American political and social history. His research addresses such topics as the decline of American politics, America's Western past, gender and political style, and the Vietnam War. McGerr is the author of the book "The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928."

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